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petis.

black-coloured shrimp paste

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/pəˈtis/Standard-Indonesian[pəˈt̪ɪs]Standard-Indonesian
  1. black-coloured shrimp paste

Where this word comes from

From Malay petis borrowing Javanese ꦥꦼꦠꦶꦱ꧀ (petis), probably from Old Javanese pa-; tis, tes (“drop”). Cognate of Tagalog patis.

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